NHS Digital has endorsed the Royal College of Nursing’s campaign “Every nurse an e-nurse”, and pledged to play a supporting role in realising the campaign’s ambition. It comes as NHS Digital today launches its first e-nursing week in support of the campaign for a digital-ready workforce. It is estimated that […]
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Funding for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening and diagnosis
A search for innovations with the ability to transform cancer screening, and facilitate earlier and faster diagnosis is underway. SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England investment fund led by the AHSN Network – invites entrepreneurs to apply for up to £1.1 million investment to develop innovations. Since the early 1990s, […]
Norfolk Recovery Partnership trials revolutionary fingerprint-based drug test
Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP), the organisation that provides advice and treatment for adults with drug and alcohol problems across Norfolk, has completed a successful trial of Intelligent Fingerprinting’s revolutionary fingerprint-based drug screening system. The NRP drug rehabilitation service, which is run by a partnership of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
Patients Know Best and Synertec to streamline patient communication
Patients Know Best (PKB), and innovative mail management supplier, Synertec, have formed a strategic partnership to help the NHS exceed its 5 year target to be paperless at the point of care by 2020. Currently, the NHS sends millions of letters through the post each year to patients before and […]
21 teams selected to put innovative ideas into practice
The Health Foundation has selected 21 new projects to be part of the sixth round of its £1.5 million innovation programme, Innovating for Improvement. Innovating for Improvement aims to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services. The […]
£30million contract signed for major IT investment at Bolton NHS FT
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has this week signed a major contract to provide enhanced digital solutions to improve patient care and outcomes. The £30million project sees the Trust work with Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Patient Record (EPR) to implement an electronic record of every aspect of a patient’s care. Currently different […]
NHS Digital welcomes new chief executive Sarah Wilkinson
NHS Digital this week has welcomed its new chief executive Sarah Wilkinson on her first day in the role. She takes over the reins from Rob Shaw, who has acted as interim chief executive for the last six months and today begins a new role as deputy chief executive. Sarah comes to the […]
Mental healthcare provider partners with Advanced to deliver digital transformation project
The UK’s leading mental healthcare charity, St Andrew’s Healthcare, has selected Advanced as its strategic partner to deliver a full digital transformation programme worth several million pounds over five years. Designed to mitigate IT risk whilst driving significant efficiencies, the contract will see Advanced take the charity on an innovative […]
GP runs morning surgery on ‘patient power’
A GP in Greater Manchester harnessed the skills of his digital-savvy patients when a power cut brought his morning surgery to a standstill. Dr Amir Hannan, of Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Greater Manchester, was able to continue consultations by viewing his patients’ medical records on their own smartphone devices, […]
Kisharon the first organisation to pilot an innovative new app
Kisharon, a specialist provider of education, opportunity and support services to people with learning difficulties, has become the first organisation to pilot Infinity – an innovative new app specifically designed to enable smarter collaboration, information handover, and task management within modern health and care teams. Infinity has been developed by […]
